Swannie

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by Swannie 14y ago
As someone who would have been ran into multiple times by texting drivers, had I not been paying full attention to what was happening around me, I wish these sorts of laws were rigorously pursued. However, I think policing of this really on
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by Swannie 14y ago
Sorry, I thought this was an April Fools! I saw "Infinitely Faster", and though uhh huh, of course. Then I clicked to the next page and "Note: Cap'n Proto is not ready yet" made me even more sure... only when I came here was it clear that t
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by Swannie 14y ago
Since when do they have to be a lifestyle company? Hire a CEO with mandate to grow the company, and go start the next one...
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by Swannie 14y ago
Except that Google, Facebook, etc. etc. successfully use baremetal deployments without a VM in sight...
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by Swannie 14y ago
Another random question: does this require any special software on the managed servers? For example, HP iLO Advanced, for additional server management features? (Don't think so, but worth asking).
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by Swannie 14y ago
Plus a per-server charge after the initial 5(?). The Register article was questioning the cost of the additional server license (5 - 10k per node), but having seen a lot of the pricing out there, it seems inline to be a little cheaper than
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by Swannie 14y ago
Having a hardware device reduces the number of things you have to worry about not being under your control. For example, what networking are you going to use? Arista? Great. What's their latest supported APIs for Quantum? Well, they just
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by Swannie 14y ago
Yes, I think we both read that article correctly. I'm saying that a rack full of servers is all hooked up to a single controller. You then have multiple, interconnected controllers, each one connecting a rack of servers. This is meant to gi
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by Swannie 14y ago
This looks like a great little system. Congrats to all the team. So many questions! The most important one: Is that Patrick Stewart doing the voice over in your video? :-) My only concern with the design is that it's not clear that clusteri
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by Swannie 14y ago
"a software platform company"? Who's that then? Nebula's first (and as far as I am aware, only) commercial offering is... a hardware appliance!
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by Swannie 14y ago
Again, I know senior developers that were pulling down £65k and generous bonuses. I know software architects with 15 years experience who are earning about the same too. But to me, they are the outliers, of what is a market that is generall
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by Swannie 14y ago
So a post based on "who you know". Most grad jobs in London will top out at £30k. http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml/graduate-developer/... Those that are higher are not real "junior" jobs - there's one that advertises "up to £50k",
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by Swannie 14y ago
Numbers I see for "generic PHP" rarely go above 40... http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml/php/searchfield/loc... There are a few above 40, but they don't sound mid-level/generic.
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by Swannie 14y ago
You are right, I'm almost certainly exhibiting selection bias. As we all know, the best jobs don't even go on the wider market, such as jobs sites, but are filled by word of mouth referrals, or conversations at events. But if I go and searc
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by Swannie 14y ago
Particularly, Bristol and Bath, Oxford, Reading, Manchester/Warrington.
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by Swannie 14y ago
For London I strongly disagree. When start-ups, profitable ones, are offering £35k + bonus + stock options (worth £0), for senior developers, in Central London, there's not a talent shortage. Similarly skilled developers are getting £35k+ &
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by Swannie 14y ago
But this is wrong. The $50k would have gone through many dilutions. He may have owned 1/3 of Apple. There is no way that today he would have 1/3rd. That said, it does raise the question: if he had gone in to Apple, would Jobs have ever left
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by Swannie 14y ago
You got there first. Sand for artificial beaches gets imported all the time, from many far flung places. Desert sand != coral reef sand (the white sand from dead coral, generally excreted from Parrot fish). You probably do quite nicely sell
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by Swannie 14y ago
DHH: "Email gets a lot of hate these days, but it truly is the king of communication. Yes, we all get a lot, but consider the alternative: Every email that would otherwise had been a meeting or a phone call." I used to believe that email wa
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by Swannie 14y ago
TL;DR: Don't name a class for a <thing>, <thing>Manager.
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by Swannie 14y ago
And how much to build it to mil. spec? Probably x10 that number at a minimum. Sure, it's not a military establishment, but I am sure their security and 50 year event survivability is higher than any commercial DC facility. Add to that the f
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by Swannie 14y ago
> > The smart but poor have high critical reading and Math scores, but very low writing aptitude test scores. > I know plenty of people who share this profile for reasons that have nothing to do with being poor. In my case I bel
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by Swannie 14y ago
Poor kid: what's a school counselor?!
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by Swannie 14y ago
I don't think they were implying any causation. They made some suggestions as to the causes, but were just pointing out the correlation.
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by Swannie 14y ago
So you lucked out, you got an interview at a top college. You didn't have the best SAT scores, but something caught their attention. As a rural candidate, they offer to cover your expenses to attend. But... Poor kid: No one can help prepare
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by Swannie 14y ago
Just think of it as forking and joining threads...
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by Swannie 14y ago
PM? Surely you mean the scrum master? :-) My feeling is that Project Managers would only be involved in daily standups if there was an urgent issue/escalation, or serious team communication issue that they have the ability to help solve. Or
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by Swannie 14y ago
All the other comments are basically saying the same thing - you're doing it wrong. I want to address your suggestions: I've tried to do the whole "email instead of standup" thing. Guess what? No one reads the damn email. No one cares. Noth
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by Swannie 14y ago
My take was: "I was a bro-grammer, I went in because, like, tech was cool man! But I realised that, dude, just being an ass-hat doesn't get you shit. Actually enjoying your work is, like, a big deal! And start ups are cool! And my earlier s
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by Swannie 14y ago
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